Os ciclos político-econômicos e os gastos dos Estados no Brasil: 1995-2013.

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Guerra, Daniel Lins Batista
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Economia; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Economia; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Ciclos políticos-econômicos; Política fiscal; Dados em painel; Political business cycle; Fiscal policy; Panel data; CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ECONOMIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/8644

The contamination of the economies' public management by both political and partisan interests and the manifestation of economic cycles induced by electoral calendar has been the target of several studies both national and international. The aim of this work is to verify if there are empirical evidences of political-business cycles for the state governments of Brazil, being analyzed the fiscal policy and electoral results in the period from 1995 to 2013. Pursuit up to investigate if state government manipulates public spending as a way of showing competence to voters for with this to expand the electoral winning chances of the current ruler or political party. Secondarily will be verified if public spending is affected by ideological-partisan reasons. Was used as theoretical mark the proposed postulates by the Theory of Political Economic Cycles proposed fundamentally by Nordhaus (1975), Rogoff (1990), Hibbs (1977) and Alesina (1987). The fundamental basis of the theoretical foundation used is the linking of economic policies and its results in electoral interests and political power projects. Econometric estimates were realized using panel data, in an attempt of verify if there was manipulation of fiscal instruments in electoral periods as prescribed by opportunistic theoretical models. The results showed the presence of PBC in public spending at state level in Brazil, following, in general terms, assumptions outlined by opportunistic model. The public spending is increased at election years in compared to the others years of the mandate, confirming the adopted hypothesis. The presence of electoral calendar influence in the evolution of public spending was observed in a stronger way in some specific expenditure functions, which are, capital expenditures, investments, works and urbanism. Was observed that there is no important difference that distinguishes ideological parties in fiscal policy in Brazilian’s states. The conclusion is that the realization of public spending of the states in Brazil is affected by electoral calendar, oscillating cyclically according foreseen in the theory of Political Business Cycles. Such behavior occurs indistinctly between governments, independently of the ideological-partisan group or its rulers.